[VeExplainrse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Now I canât pledge allegiance to your flag
Cause I canât find no reconciliation with your past
When there was nothing equal for my people in your math
You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads
The belly of the beast, these streets are demonsâ abs
Iâm telling you that setup in them sit-ups is so sad
The system is a slab
Corruption is the swinger sittinâ high ridinâ dirty, drag racinâ into danger
And itâs so clean, pine trees smellinâ good
With work off in the trunk and niggas in the hood
So I canât shed blood on any battlefield of yours
I pray the ugly truth comes and shatters your decor
And as it all falls down and tatters on the floor
I shed tears, I donât know what really matters anymore
Cause I donât know what really matters anymore
Made in pain, the strangest things you ever seen
Oh, look at how they swing, would you look at how they swing?
They ain't dead though
No I ain't die y'all
I cut myself down
Admire my fall
Now as I wander through the city goinâ mad
I see the fruits of planting evidence instead of grass
A swindled generation with no patience, full of swag
Man, they so impatient with the stations that they have
As long as they look good when they be doinâ bad
Then the separation from the truth is gettinâ vast, fast
Be a slave at first or free at last
Double-edged choices make a nigga wanna pass
Double-headed voices from the eagle on the staff
The pyramid where eyes will split the spirited in half
Divided over money
Delighted by the dummyinâ down of the importance of crowns weâll never have
Thatâs why my sounds and sermons are so full of wrath
Baptize your mind, let your brain take a bath
Swim inside the river get delivered from the craft
Of the witches in this business that be livinâ off your sad
Hatinâ on your happiness you hit âem off with laughs
Smile âtil they surrender, then you kill âem off with glad
Hello evil, Iâm back
Made in pain, the strangest things you ever seen
Oh, look at how they swing, would you look at how they swing?
They ain't dead though
No I ain't die y'all
I cut myself down
Admire my fall
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